Mongol invasions of Sakhalin

Mongol invasions of Sakhalin
Part of Mongol campaigns in Siberia

Sakhalin and its surroundings
Date1264–1308
Location
Result
  • Mongol victory
  • Ainu incursions against the Nivkh repulsed, Ainu people in Sakhalin become tributaries of the Yuan dynasty
Belligerents
Mongol Empire (Yuan dynasty)
Nivkh people
Sakhalin Ainu
Commanders and leaders
Taxiala
Tata'erdai
Yangwuludai
Others
Waying
Yushannu
Others

From 1264 to 1308, the Mongol Empire (and its successor the Yuan dynasty) made several incursions into the island of Sakhalin off the east coast of Siberia to aid their Nivkh allies against the Ainu, who had been expanding north from Hokkaido. The Ainu put up a tenacious resistance, even launching a counter-attack on Mongol positions on the continent across the Strait of Tartary in 1297, but finally capitulated to the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China in 1308.